Join us for Restaurant Week, from Sunday, August 29th through Monday, September 6th, when diners can take advantage of amazing deals at many of the Tampa Bay area's finest restaurants, including The Columbia Restaurant in Ybor City, The Columbia in Downtown St. Petersburg at The Pier, The Columbia in Clearwater Beach on Sand Key, and The Columbia Café on The Riverwalk in Tampa.
For more information, and Restaurant Week menus, please visit:
http://www.visittampabay.com/dine-tampa-bay-2010/
At Columbia Restaurant, we believe that two aspects of elegant dining deserve specialized attention: The preparation and serving of the cuisine and the selection of the finest wines to accompany each meal.
» View our wine list for Columbia Ybor City
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Our 265-page award-winning wine list contains more than 850 wines with an inventory exceeding 50,000 bottles. It is recognized by many of Spain’s leading winemakers including Hall of Famer Miguel Torres and Vega-Sicilia’s Pablo Alvarez as having the most complete and the world’s best collection in the world of wines from Spain. We also carry a selection of wines from Chile and America
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Columbia Restaurant 13th Annual Community Harvest for Non-Profit Groups
Let your appetite do the giving while you support local non-profit groups in Florida by dining at any Columbia Restaurant or The Columbia Cafe during the entire month of September for lunch or dinner during the 13th Annual Columbia Restaurant Community Harvest program.
Click here to learn more about our Community Harvest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxv2GXwXR50
Through this program, The Columbia donates 5% of all guests’ lunch and dinner checks to the charitable organizations chosen by their customers during the month of September. The Community Harvest takes place in all of the Columbia Restaurants; Tampa’s Ybor City, Sarasota, St. Augustine, The Pier in St. Petersburg, Sand Key on Clearwater Beach, Central Florida’s Town of Celebration, and at the new Columbia Café on the Riverwalk in Downtown Tampa. All Columbia locations are open 7-days a week for lunch and dinner.
Last year, a record of over $137,000 was donated to more than 100 local non-profit organizations throughout Florida as a result of the Columbia Restaurant Community Harvest -- This donation in 2009 was the largest one made in twelve years of giving back to local non-profit groups. In spite of the difficult economy, The Columbia’s sales were up, allowing them to donate generously to these non-profit groups – who in turn had so many more people in need of their help.
“We hit a milestone last year with our Community Harvest donations, we have now given over one million dollars in the past twelve years to more than 100 local non-profit groups in the six communities that our locations serve, and we hope that 2010 will break last year’s record of our largest donation ever given,” said Richard Gonzmart, 4th generation family member and president of the Columbia Restaurant. “We know that so many of these non-profit groups need our help, more than ever, as they face cutbacks due to the economy,” said Gonzmart.
“We started our Community Harvest in 1998 as a way of contributing to many of the worthy non-profit groups that are so important to our communities,” noted Richard Gonzmart. “We thought the best way to do this was by letting our customers get involved in selecting the organizations. The process is simple. They just put a check mark next to the name of one of the charitable organizations listed on the form we provide to them, or they can write in the name of their favorite charity, and turn it in to their server. We do the rest,” explained Gonzmart.
The original Columbia Restaurant was founded in 1905 in Ybor City and is Florida’s oldest restaurant. Locations include the flagship restaurant in Tampa’s historic Ybor City, St. Armands Circle in Sarasota, the historic district in St. Augustine, The Pier in St. Petersburg, Sand Key in Clearwater Beach, Central Florida’s town of Celebration, and the Columbia Café on the Riverwalk in Downtown Tampa. All Columbia Restaurants are owned and operated by the Gonzmart family, fourth and fifth generation members of the founding family.
For more information, see www.columbiarestaurant.com
13th Annual Columbia Community Harvest – Non-Profit Participating Groups
Columbia Ybor City and The Columbia Café on the Riverwalk, Tampa
1. 1 Voice
2. Alpha House
3. American Cancer Society
4. American Diabetes Association
5. American Heart Association
6. Boys and Girls Clubs of Tampa
7. Children’s Cancer Center, Inc.
8. Moffitt Cancer Center
9. Humane Society of Tampa Bay
10. Lifepath Hospice
11. Make-A-Wish Foundation
12. Meals On Wheels of Tampa
13. Operation Helping Hand
14. Pediatric Cancer Foundation
15. Tampa General Hospital Foundation
16. The Centre for Women
17. Voices for Children
Columbia Sarasota
1. American Cancer Society
2. Animal Rescue Coalition (ARC)
3. Boys & Girls Clubs of Sarasota County
4. Children’s Cancer Center, Inc
5. Moffitt Cancer Center
6. Humane Society of Sarasota
7. Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
8. Make-A-Wish Foundation
9. Mote Marine Laboratory
10. Pediatric Cancer Foundation
11. Salvation Army
12. Second Chance Last Opportunity
13. Suncoast Charities for Children
14. The V Foundation for Cancer Research
15. Tidewell Hospice
16. United Cerebral Palsy of Sarasota
Columbia St. Augustine
1. American Cancer Society
2. American Diabetes Association
3. Betty Griffin House
4. Center for Autism
5. Children’s Cancer Center
6. Community Hospice of NE Florida
7. Dreams Come True
8. Emergency Services & Homeless Coalition
9. Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind
10. Moffitt Cancer Center
11. Make A Wish Foundation of Central & Northern Florida
12. Pediatric Cancer Foundation
13. St. Augustine Humane Society
14. St. Francis House
15. St. Johns County Council on Aging
16. Take Stock in Children
Columbia at The Pier in St. Petersburg and Columbia Sand Key on Clearwater Beach
1. All Children’s Hospital Foundation
2. Alzheimer’s Association
3. American Cancer Society
4. American Diabetes Association
5. American Heart Association
6. Children’s Cancer Center, Inc.
7. Moffitt Cancer Center
8. Help A Child
9. Hospice of Florida Suncoast
10. Make-A-Wish Foundation
11. Meals on Wheels
12. PARC
13. Pediatric Cancer Foundation
14. Pier Aquarium
15. SPCA
Columbia Celebration
1. Alzheimer Resource Center
2. American Heart Association
3. Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Central Florida
4. Children’s Cancer Center
5. Florida Lions Camp
6. Moffitt Cancer Center
7. Hemophilia Foundation of Greater Florida
8. Lighthouse Central Florida
9. Make A Wish Foundation of Central & Northern Florida
10. Pediatric Cancer Foundation
11. SPCA of Central Florida
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We have created a line of private label wines to honor the memory of our family members.
Don Cesar® Crianza (Ribera del Duero, Spain)
A distinctive red wine. This elegant red's core is lush with black-berry and cassis flavors, the acidity is lively and the tannins offer firm support. Produced in Spain's prestigious Ribera del Duero region in memory of our father, Cesar Gonzmart.
Adelita Chardonnay®(Penedès, Spain)
This outstanding Chardonnay is brilliant in color and possesses a complex bouquet with good intensity. Toasty overtones derived from maturing in French Oak cask. Smooth and very balanced with tones of vanilla. Produced in memory of our mother, Adela Hernandez Gonzmart.
Don Casimiro (California)
Selected to honor the founders of the Columbia Restaurant, Casimiro Hernandez, Sr. and Jr.
Carmen (Chile)
Selected to honor the memory of our Grandmother Carmen Hernandez, wife of Casimiro Hernandez Jr., son of the founder.
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